Essay Nine - Politics - Written during the 2010 midterm elections in America, a deep, lucid, sane look into the politics of the Zen hierarchies, and politics in general. The show opens with the 9th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Nagarjuna and Kanadeva - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The music interlude - Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good - Ego Maniac Kid

Essay Ten - The Long Retreat - A glimpse into the life of a Zen adept, the process of preparing for long retreats, and how they are done. The show opens with the 10th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - One Mind is Still - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music - The Cure - Disintegration - Last Dance

Essay Eleven - Event Horizon - The Zen Revolution takes a new turn, toward a live autobiography, the dharma presented against a backdrop of various lowlifes from the house on Monterey, to a concert in Hollywood. The show opens with the 11th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Wide Open, Nothing Holy - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music - Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly - The Messenger & 23 - Top Ranking

Essay Twelve - Tribes - The Zen Revolution Thanksgiving Special - takes you on a bus ride to Berkeley, a rambling tour through Skid Row, an update on Kye Soen from The Zen Revolution, and her children - all sorts of holiday fun . The show opens with the 12th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - True Taste of Zen - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music is - AFX - Analord 08 & 05 - W32.Deadcode.A & Reunion 2

Essay Thirteen - Quadrism - The Zen Revolution takes a final turn, toward a new series, a new format, and introduces the concept of quadrism. This episode marks the spin off of Field of Weeds to its own show with a new beat, more of a documentary, stripped bare, with extra content available on the upcoming iPhone/android apps: video shorts, photographs, homade music, and a text of the show formatted for portable devices.